COLT 0810M - Uncanny Tales: Narratives of Repetition and Interruption

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Brown University

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Close readings of short narratives with special attention to how formal and thematic elements interact to produce the effects of uncertainty, anxiety and incoherence peculiar to "the uncanny." Topics include: the representation of the self in images of the arts; the representation of speech; instabilities of identity and spatial and temporal boundaries; doubles, monsters, and automata. Texts selected from: Walpole, Shelley, Hoffmann, Kleist, Poe, Dostoevsky, Freud, Wilde and Kafka.

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1.00

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Lecture

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www.brown.edu

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(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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